Drug-addicted couple admits to robberies

A Bethlehem couple admitted robbing four Lehigh County banks in 2008 and 2009.

James Michael Kline, 53, and 33-year-old Leslie Lynn Horn made off with $10,000 in cash in the four robberies, police have said.

Kline pleaded guilty Wednesday to five counts of robbery. He also pleaded no contest to a sixth robbery charge.

Horn pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal conspiracy to commit robbery.

Both are scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 15 by Lehigh County Judge Kelly L. Banach.

When Kline was arrested hours after committing the fourth robbery on Jan. 15, 2009, police said he had 54 packets of heroin on him. Kline admitted to police that he robbed the four banks while Horn drove the getaway car after each one, according to court documents. They told officers their $500-a-day drug addictions to drugs led them to rob, police have said.